For those that say yes, is there any reason that you don't get a personal domain, forward it to gmail.com and have Gmail send outbound with your domain?
Yes, the lack of reason to switch.
Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
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Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#42No, and yes.
I use firstname@lastname.com for my primary personal email, hosted by Google Apps.
I use lastname@gmail.com for my primary impersonal email.
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#43I'm planning to move to Runbox [1], a Norwegian company. Norway arguably has the some tough privacy laws (than US) and being a European citizen, all the better for me.
My friend is using it and the interface is not as polished as other providers,but definitely worth the money!
[1]: http://runbox.com/
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#44Yes and not bothered about privacy issues at all.
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#45But I use Google apps on a personal domain, so I am "kind of" using gmail as my primary email.
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#46Yes, but not for long. Migrating to a self-hosted mail server is one of my top priorities [1] for 2013. [1] - http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/26/andrew_we...
I too want to do this but I haven't seen a self-hosted interface and spam filtering that really competes with Gmail :(
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#47No, I'm current split though, I mainly use shanea93@ho[]tmai`l.co.uk, but it feels impersonal when I email people, I'm thinking of swapping over to me@shane[]armstro`ng.co.uk (a domain I own.)
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#48I used to use a self hosted email address, but it just lead to confusion. It was much easier to pick a team and run with it. I picked Google.
> I used to use a self hosted email address, but it just lead to confusion.
Not sure what that means. How does a self-hosted email address lead to confusion? Confusion by who for what?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any ideas/plans for how you will do the migration?
I don't really care about Gmail 'features' that I will be missing out on, spam detection is probably the thing I'll miss the most, but that's a tradeoff I can live with. Other than that, there's the thing that I need to trust my VM provider, but that much easier than trusting a data mining conglomerate with your private conversations. In the end, self hosting an email server isn't that big of a deal to set up and mai…
I used to believe that spam detection was the critical component that would be difficult to replace, but going back about a year now I don't believe that's true any more.
I've even seen Gmail mark its own address confirmation mails as spam, along with many mails from people I frequently converse with.
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#50For those that say yes, is there any reason that you don't get a personal domain, forward it to gmail.com and have Gmail send outbound with your domain?
that's what I'm doing, but people see both adresses (via mydomain.com)
Gmail > Settings > Accounts and Import > Send mail as > Edit info
Then untick 'Treat as an alias'. I remember having the same issue with 'via ...' and I think doing this did the trick.